The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-10
washington letter.
tEroln our regular correspondenIl
WASHINGTON. JUNE 8, 1887.

WASHINGTON, JUNE D, 1881.
Washington is left alone among the
beauty Of its highly cultivated parks. The
National Drill is now a thing of the past,
and : very bad dream it is feared fnan-
cialIy. q dream that viii assume a painful
reality when the promoters of the affair
have to make good the reported deficit OF
$50. 900. But there IS 70 authentic state
ment Of the expenses yet presented, indeed
it is not yet possible to have had in all the
items Of expense, and a better showing
may be hoped for. OF the drill itself there
can be no question of its success. In point
Of numbers. many more could have been
Accommodated and welcomed. Such a vast
area as the portion allotted to the camp,
and so large q space rs the drill ground
would have required three times the num-
Der of men who attended to have filed it,
and as the preparations were made for "a
great number the expenses have been pro-
~portiomately great. The committee are
ont Of pocket perhaps, the Toledo Cadets
have had their just and bitter ~disappoint-
ment assuaged by their brilliant reception
at home, and the two home companies, the
Washington Light Infantry and the Ma
tionaI Rifles, are made forever bitter foes,
and so endeth the drill, happily in spite OF
many things not happy in themselves.
The annual session of the association Of
Mechanical Engineers has been held here
this week. This organization numbers
over seven hundred members. All of them
are not present at this session, however,
but representatives from all parts of the
Union are. On Wednesday evening they
were given 4 reception ct the beautiful
residence Of ex-Commissioncr Dent.
This house IS one OF the handsomest in the
city, in regard to view and situation it is
undoubtedly one of the finest in the Dis
trict. On Georgetown Heights in 4 park
Of noble old oak trees, the broad house
with its wide halls and windows, has an
air of solidity and permanence not often to
be met with in American houses. The re-
ception was largely attended by many
prominent persons, residents and visitors,
and the members of the association, with
the ladies accompanying them, must take
away with them the pleasantest impress
sions Of Washington, as indeed any visitor
here during the month OF May must be
sure to do.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland still
remain in the Adirondack woods, where
the President, if the catch of fish may not
always come up to his wishes, can find in
perfection than immunity from the publ ic
gaze SO dear to his heart.
The count of the cash in the Treasury
prior to the transfer Of the office of Treas
urer from Mr.. Jordan to Mr.. James W.
Hyatt, OF Norwaik, Conn. has begun and
will continue indefinitely. The National
Bank Notes, the Legal Tenders, and sill
yer certificates, were counted in W days,
but when it comes to silver dollars piled
stack upon stack in the vaults it is another
matter. If the men who succeeded
in forcing the making of Il law to purchase
two million of silver bullion a month
$500. 900 standard silver dollars) could
witness this count, they might probably
Each thousand dollars weigh sixty pounds,
and is tied in a separate bag. The bags
are passed one by one down a line Of from
eight to twenty men according to the dis
lance TO be trayersed from one vault to an
other, each bag is weighed in the presence
ofa committee, and piled up again in
vaults that ave to be braced up by strong
beams on the outside to prevent the silver
from bursting the walls. Every available
space in the Treasury is now occupied by
these bags Of metal, and some idea of the
magnitude of the subject may be reached
and brought nearer 4 practical conception,
when it is understood that this store is
added to each month by fifteen thousand
pounds Of silver in five thousand bags.
Where will it end? When viii it stop?
Washington will become Il second Pompeii,
and be buried, not in ashes, but in sill
yer.
The fleeing character of Washington
life was most sadly excmpliied the other
day, when it was desired to give Sir Ed
ward Thornton, the former minister from
Great Britain to the United States, a din
ncr. Sir Edward was requested to make
out a list of those of his former friends
here he would like to meet again. He did
so, and of all that list, numbering men
once active and prominent in political and
social life, but one could be found in the
town. The others, where? Dead or for
gotten in the Oblivion of some distant
small town.
WESTON.